Surehaven staff recently attended a 3 day training workshop in Haverfordwest. The workshop was facilitated by Professor Robert Hare, author of the Psychopathy Check List (PCL-R), and one of the world’s foremost authorities on psychopathy and Professor Nicola Gray a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist, who has published extensively on psychopathy and risk assessment, and is director of the Wales Applied Risk Research Network (WARRN).
Surehaven exhibited on the middle day and the Managing Director Tim Savage hosted an evening BBQ on the last night for all attendees. Despite the best efforts of the weather to ruin the event, the BBQ went off well with the chefs producing superb food under a few well placed umbrellas!
PCL-R is widely accepted as the most reliable and valid method for assessing psychopathy and is rapidly being adopted worldwide for basic and applied research including neuro-imaging, and as a key instrument in forensic psychology and psychiatry. The PCL-R and the more recent screening version, the PCL:SV, are strong predictors of recidivism, violence and the inability to respond to therapeutic intervention. Both the PCL-R and PCL:SV are routinely used to assess risk in a variety of forensic populations, to aid sentencing decisions, treatment suitability and institutional placements.
Surehaven is committed to ensuring that all its staff receive the appropriate training and those who attended the workshop will be attending futher workshops run by WARRN in the near future.
Surehaven is pleased to announce that we have relocated from our Newport office to our new office premises which are located at 1 Links Court, Links Business Park, St Mellons, Cardiff, CF3 0LT.
Our telephone and fax numbers will be changed to 029 2036 5590 and 029 2036 8694 respectively. However, our Newport telephone number will still continue to receive incoming calls and be diverted to the new office for three months commencing 1st July 2009.
We look forward to hearing from you at our new location.
Surehaven is pleased to announce that our website has been updated and now includes photographs and virtual tours of our facilities as well as advertising all job vacancies across the company. Futher enhancements are planned with a new re-launched website later in the year.
Surehaven is pleased to announce that the programme of works on a new 16 bed unit in Drumchapel commenced on 20/04/09. The exciting venture is a result of many months of collaboration with the design team and contractors resulting in a Surehaven building that will enable us to set new standards for patient care and treatment.
The new service due to open in the Spring 2010 will combine a state of the art building and philosophy of care that will provide a positive experience for the patient group in two gender specific wards. Surehaven’s clinical team will take advantage of this purpose designed building to provide treatment programmes for men and women with a range of mental disorders.
When open, the Drumchapel Service will complement the existing services in Wales and the further planned Scottish developments.
Ewan McLean, Director of Operations for Scotland, said “our Drumchapel development will offer an exceptional environment for patient care. I have every confidence that the service to be delivered in Drumchapel will be exciting and innovative, benefiting both the local area and patients across the country”.